Yabause Success

[mattneub]

Has anyone had success using yabause with MaLa?  Yabause is working outside of MaLa, but can' seem to get it to work with MaLa.  Hoping that there is a magic command line I am missing in the settings.

[harveybirdman]

does it require the mounting of a disc image?

Also it might help if you describe the behavior when you attempt to launch from Mala.  Is there an error message?  do you see any windowed screens?

[mattneub]

Sure, what happens is that yabause opens, but the rom is not loaded.  I am using the default command line "%path%\%rom%.%ext%" in the settings.  Cannot seem to locate any command line help for yabause anywhere. 

Perhaps the broader question is if anyone is using yabause in the first place, if there are better Sega Saturn emulators to use I am not stuck on this one.

[harveybirdman]

My advice is to get it working from the command line before getting into Mala.  For PC Engine (ootake) I had to mount a disc image with DAMEON tools prior to booting because the emulator needed to emulate opening the cd drive and closing it.

[mattneub]

Thanks for the ideas, I did get this working.  Apparently yabause has removed command line support for loading as of the last few versions.

The emulator can be setup however so that it always loads the same file.  Because the Saturn CD images are stored as .cue and .bin files, I was able to find a workaround.

Setup yabause to always load "default.cue" , then set MaLa to look for the .cue files.  Add small script to copy the selected .cue file as "default.cue", and added that as a pre-command to run before launcing the emulator.

MaLa command was: G\Saturn\preload.bat "%path%\%rom%%ext%", .bat command was: copy %1 G:\Saturn\defalt.cue /y